Picture Highlights

My first two weeks in India were almost exclusively this:

Bleak urban squalor interrupted only by people in beautiful clothes and festively painted trucks -- they almost all look like this:

Fortunately I have some friends in the area who whisked me out of the city and showed me how less than an hour from the city there are beautiful places:

With nice places to walk:

And wildlife:

Go a little further and there are wonders - like the 4th largest banyan tree in the world (only a small part of it shown):

palaces:

and temples:

 and shrines:

And other kinds of animals: